Bill Text: CA SB1459 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Animal shelters.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-08-15 - August 15 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1459 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1459
| Introduced by Senator Nguyen (Coauthor: Senator Newman) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Davies, Dixon, Flora, Quirk-Silva, and Sanchez) |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to add Section 32004 to the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to animals.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1459, as amended, Nguyen.
Animal shelters.
(1) Existing law governs the operation of animal shelters by, among other things, setting a minimum holding period for stray dogs and cats and requiring animal shelters to ensure that dogs and cats, if adopted, are spayed or neutered.
This bill would require require, beginning January 1, 2026, public animal control agencies or shelters or private animal shelters with local contracts for animal care located in a county with a population greater than 400,000 to update any data that they make available on their internet website at least once per month,
and would require those agencies and shelters to publish specified information on their internet website, including the number of animals taken in during the prior month and the outcomes for animals over the prior month. By expanding the duties of public animal control agencies and shelters, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 32004 is added to the Food and Agricultural Code, immediately following Section 32003, to read:32004.
(a) A public animal shelter or private animal shelter with local contracts for animal care shall update any data that it makes available on its internet website at least once per month.(b) A public animal shelter or private animal shelter with local contracts for animal care shall publish the following information to its internet website:
(1) The number of animals taken in during the prior month with separate categories for dogs, cats, and other animals.
(2) The source of intake, such as a relocation from another shelter or from the field.
(3) Outcomes for animals over the prior month, including adoptions, returns to owners, transfers to rescue organizations, euthanized animals, died in care, or dead upon arrival.
(c)This section shall apply only to a public animal shelter or private animal shelter with local contracts for animal care located in a county with a population greater than 400,000.
(c) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2026.
